Russia’s Central Bank has decided to adopt standards to tighten bank safety requirements simultaneously with Europe and the United States. The requirements, however, will be stricter in the Russian market than in the West.
Over 2,500 servicemen and 350 weapons systems are involved in snap combat readiness drills for Russia’s Strategic Missile Forces (RVSN), a Defense Ministry spokesman said Tuesday.
In an unusual move, riot police officer Alexander Kozmin has declined to testify in the trial against a participant in last year’s large-scale anti-government protest at Moscow’s Bolotnaya Ploshchad.
Russian officials complained on Monday that the United States routinely disregards extradition requests by the Russian government, the latest in a series of public statements that seem aimed at laying the groundwork for granting asylum to Edward J. Snowden, the former intelligence contractor on the run from the American authorities.
More than 50 of Russia‘s leading legal experts, most of them distinguished professors of law, havesigned an open letter warning that Russia’s constitutional order is “under threat.” The letter decries what it calls the systematic abuses of the rights of citizens by authorities bent on silencing political opponents.
Four Dutch nationals have been arrested in Russia on charges of spreading ‘homosexual propaganda’, Nos television reported on Monday.
The Moscow prosecutor’s office has lifted the ban on operations by the opposition movement Left Front led by Sergei Udaltsov.
During the State Duma’s fall session deputies from the Just Russia party will present a list of amendments to the economic amnesty law passed in early July, news reports said Monday.
Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev signed on Monday a resolution obliging officials of nearly 30 state companies to report their incomes and expenditures, in an apparent bid to crack down on corruption.
Russian opposition leader arrives in capital after being released from custody while appeal is heard against jail sentence
